{"id":12396,"date":"2013-05-16T18:18:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:18:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-05-16T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:18:51","slug":"the_president_s_non_answer_is_an_admission_that_the_white_house_knew_what_the_irs_was_doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/05\/16\/the_president_s_non_answer_is_an_admission_that_the_white_house_knew_what_the_irs_was_doing\/","title":{"rendered":"The President\u2019s Non-Answer is an Admission that the White House Knew What the IRS was Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m going through a bunch of sound bites here that I was just sent from the Obama presser, and Cookie just tell me a yes or no here on the flash message. Is there more than one sound bite from Obama on the IRS Q&A? I\u2019ve got three bites here, and I want to know if I\u2019ve got more. Still waiting for an answer. <\/p>\n

Nixon comparison, no apologies to the AP, I think I\u2019ve only got one. The reason that I\u2019m asking here is that he did not answer the question — yeah, just this one. Let\u2019s play it, and I\u2019ll give you the thing I wanted to say about it. Sound bite 27, and this is the press conference we didn\u2019t really JIP. I think we played part of this answer. We did JIP it once. I\u2019m gonna tell you what. It started raining. <\/p>\n

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It was very hot and humid in Washington today, started raining, and Obama called in a couple of Marines with umbrellas to shield him and Recap Syrup or whatever his name is from Turkey, Recep, Recap, whatever. I never can get this guy\u2019s name. I have to be looking at it. It\u2019s Recep Tayyip. He\u2019s a big Islamist, big Muslim Brotherhood guy, thought to be this moderate Islamist, but he\u2019s not. He\u2019s a militant guy. He\u2019s sort of like Obama in that regard. He\u2019s thought of as the exact opposite of what he is. <\/p>\n

Anyway, the thing went 90 minutes. I\u2019m gonna guarantee you, the media that had to sit there, the White House press corps, when that was over, I guarantee you, “We sat through 90 minutes for this?” I\u2019ll give you a little heads-up. There were very, very high expectations of this presser. You know how I know that? Normally our affiliate stations do not inquire here if we\u2019re gonna cover or broadcast in its entirety any Obama press conference. They either do or they don\u2019t, but they never ask me what I\u2019m gonna do. They just assume I\u2019m not gonna.<\/p>\n

Today we had a number of inquiries from local EIB affiliates who wanted to cover the whole thing. It\u2019s about the IRS, and their audiences are really loaded for bear on this, and they thought they had a broadcast duty to cover the whole thing, which means that they had high expectations. Everybody thought there might be some bombshells. I know what people were thinking. Everybody\u2019s thinking the press was gonna really dog Obama on this, and he was gonna maybe be embarrassed. <\/p>\n

Not I, El Rushbo. I don\u2019t think the press has turned, and I don\u2019t think he\u2019s lost the press, and I don\u2019t think the press is gonna give him a tough time. All of that is conventional wisdom, how he\u2019s lost the press and they finally turned. That\u2019s just BS, folks. But we did JIP part of it. I just think that the reporters that were there, after sitting there for an hour and a half and their expectations might have been high, too, and I guarantee you when it was over, they said, “We sat through \u201990 minutes for that?” In the rain. It was a nonevent. <\/p>\n

The Turkish prime minister\u2019s name is Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And the question came from Bloomberg, chief White House correspondent Julianna Goldman. She said, “Can you assure the American people, Mr. President, that nobody in the White House knew about the agency\u2019s actions before your counsel\u2019s office found out on April 22nd? And when they did find out, do you think that you should have learned about it before you learned about it from news reports, as you said last Friday?” <\/p>\n

So as far as the press is concerned, Obama didn\u2019t know about this IRS thing \u2019til last Friday. That\u2019s how detached he is. That\u2019s how rogue the employees were. He didn\u2019t know about that, and he didn\u2019t know about Benghazi. He didn\u2019t know about any of that any sooner than any of you did. Here\u2019s how he answered that question.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked through the press. In terms of the White House and reporting, I think that you\u2019ve gotten that information from Mr. Carney and others. I promise you this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The minute I found out about it, then my main focus is making sure that we get the thing fixed.<\/p>\n